A new Radioactive Ion Beam (RIB) facility (SPES) is presently under construction at the Legnaro National Laboratories of INFN. The SPES facility is based on the ISOL method using an UCx Direct Target ...able to sustain a power of 8 kW. The primary proton beam is provided by a high current Cyclotron accelerator with energy of 35-70 MeV and a beam current of 0.2-0.7 mA. Neutron-rich radioactive ions are produced by proton induced fission on an Uranium target at an expected fission rate of the order of 1013 fissions per second. After ionization and selection the exotic isotopes are re-accelerated by the ALPI superconducting LINAC at energies of 10A MeV for masses in the region A=130 amu. The expected secondary beam rates are of the order of 107 - 109 pps. Aim of the SPES facility is to deliver high intensity radioactive ion beams of neutron rich nuclei for nuclear physics research as well as to be an interdisciplinary research centre for radio-isotopes production for medicine and for neutron beams.
Several sectors of the industry (pharmaceutical, food, and other) often occupy a prominent position in scientific meetings on health. The aim of this article is to discuss the participation of food ...and beverage industries (Big Food and Big Soda) in events organized by scientific institutions in health and nutrition, highlighting potential conflicts of interest in such partnerships. As an example, the authors report the case of a Brazilian national event organized by a nutrition scientific association in 2011. Focused on the theme "Evidence-based Nutrition," the event's scientific program was largely influenced by corporate sponsors. For example, a symposium at this congress was organized by a beverage company known worldwide for its sugar-sweetened products and classified as the "diamond sponsor" of the event. While debating the adoption of healthy lifestyles in the current scenario of rising occurrence of obesity, the rationale for health promotion was reduced to providing information that would motivate rational individual choices, thus ignoring any political, economic, cultural, marketing, and social factors involved in the global process of nutrition transition. The authors conclude that conflicts of interest are present in the participation of food and beverage industries in health scientific events. The industries' strategy attempts to grant legitimacy to the production and marketing of their products through an association with adequate health practices. Health professionals and policy-makers should reflect on such partnerships because their main purpose is to generate profit, not the promotion of public health. Key words: conflict of interest; food industry; soft drink industry; Brazil. Diversos sectores de la industria (farmaceutico, alimentario y otros) a menudo ocupan una posicion prominente en las reuniones cientificas sobre temas de salud. El objetivo de este articulo es tratar sobre la participacion de las industrias de la alimentacion y las bebidas (Big Food and Big Soda) en acontecimientos organizados por instituciones cientificas del ambito de la salud y la nutricion, senalando los potenciales conflictos de intereses que surgen de tales asociaciones. Como ejemplo, los autores comentan sobre el acontecimiento nacional organizado el ano 2011 en el Brasil por una asociacion cientifica del ambito de la nutricion. El programa cientifico de este acontecimiento, dedicado al tema de "La nutricion basada en datos probatorios", se vio influido en gran parte por sus patrocinadores corporativos. Por ejemplo, un simposio de este congreso fue organizado por una empresa productora de bebidas, conocida a escala mundial por sus productos azucarados y clasificada como "patrocinador diamante" del acontecimiento. Mientras se debatia sobre la adopcion de modos de vida saludables en el contexto actual de incremento de los casos de obesidad, el ambito de promocion de la salud se redujo a suministrar informacion que incitara a elecciones individuales racionales, sin que se tuvieran en cuenta los factores politicos, economicos, culturales, mercadotecnicos y sociales que el proceso mundial de transicion nutricional involucra. Los autores concluyen que los conflictos de intereses existen en la participacion de las industrias de la alimentacion y las bebidas en acontecimientos cientificos sobre temas de salud. La estrategia de las industrias intenta dar legitimidad a la produccion y comercializacion de sus productos mediante una asociacion con practicas de salud adecuadas. Los profesionales de la salud y las instancias normativas deben reflexionar sobre tales asociaciones, ya que su principal finalidad no es la promocion de la salud publica sino la generacion de beneficios. Palabras clave: conflicto de intereses; industria de alimentos; industria de bebidas gasificadas; Brasil.
The SPES Radioactive Ion Beam facility at INFN-LNL is presently in the construction phase. The facility is based on the Isol (Isotope separation on-line) method with an UCx Direct Target able to ...sustain a power of 10 kW. The primary proton beam is provided by a high current Cyclotron accelerator with energy of 35-70 MeV and a beam current of 0.2-0.5 mA. Neutron-rich radioactive ions are produced by proton induced Uranium fission at an expected fission rate of the order of 1013 fissions per second. After ionization and selection the exotic isotopes are re-accelerated by the ALPI superconducting Linac at energies of 10A MeV for masses in the region A = 130 amu. The expected secondary beam rates are of the order of 107 - 109 pps. Aim of the SPES project is to provide a facility for high intensity radioactive ion beams for nuclear physics research as well as to develop an interdisciplinary research center based on the cyclotron proton beam.
Several sectors of the industry (pharmaceutical, food, and other) often occupy a prominent position in scientific meetings on health. The aim of this article is to discuss the participation of food ...and beverage industries (Big Food and Big Soda) in events organized by scientific institutions in health and nutrition, highlighting potential conflicts of interest in such partnerships. As an example, the authors report the case of a Brazilian national event organized by a nutrition scientific association in 2011. Focused on the theme "Evidence-based Nutrition," the event's scientific program was largely influenced by corporate sponsors. For example, a symposium at this congress was organized by a beverage company known worldwide for its sugar-sweetened products and classified as the "diamond sponsor" of the event. While debating the adoption of healthy lifestyles in the current scenario of rising occurrence of obesity, the rationale for health promotion was reduced to providing information that would motivate rational individual choices, thus ignoring any political, economic, cultural, marketing, and social factors involved in the global process of nutrition transition. The authors conclude that conflicts of interest are present in the participation of food and beverage industries in health scientific events. The industries' strategy attempts to grant legitimacy to the production and marketing of their products through an association with adequate health practices. Health professionals and policy-makers should reflect on such partnerships because their main purpose is to generate profit, not the promotion of public health.
Several sectors of the industry (pharmaceutical, food, and other) often occupy a prominent position in scientific meetings on health. The aim of this article is to discuss the participation of food ...and beverage industries (Big Food and Big Soda) in events organized by scientific institutions in health and nutrition, highlighting potential conflicts of interest in such partnerships. As an example, the authors report the case of a Brazilian national event organized by a nutrition scientific association in 2011. Focused on the theme "Evidence-based Nutrition," the event's scientific program was largely influenced by corporate sponsors. For example, a symposium at this congress was organized by a beverage company known worldwide for its sugar-sweetened products and classified as the "diamond sponsor" of the event. While debating the adoption of healthy lifestyles in the current scenario of rising occurrence of obesity, the rationale for health promotion was reduced to providing information that would motivate rational individual choices, thus ignoring any political, economic, cultural, marketing, and social factors involved in the global process of nutrition transition. The authors conclude that conflicts of interest are present in the participation of food and beverage industries in health scientific events. The industries' strategy attempts to grant legitimacy to the production and marketing of their products through an association with adequate health practices. Health professionals and policy-makers should reflect on such partnerships because their main purpose is to generate profit, not the promotion of public health. Key words: conflict of interest; food industry; soft drink industry; Brazil. Diversos sectores de la industria (farmaceutico, alimentario y otros) a menudo ocupan una posicion prominente en las reuniones cientificas sobre temas de salud. El objetivo de este articulo es tratar sobre la participacion de las industrias de la alimentacion y las bebidas (Big Food and Big Soda) en acontecimientos organizados por instituciones cientificas del ambito de la salud y la nutricion, senalando los potenciales conflictos de intereses que surgen de tales asociaciones. Como ejemplo, los autores comentan sobre el acontecimiento nacional organizado el ano 2011 en el Brasil por una asociacion cientifica del ambito de la nutricion. El programa cientifico de este acontecimiento, dedicado al tema de "La nutricion basada en datos probatorios", se vio influido en gran parte por sus patrocinadores corporativos. Por ejemplo, un simposio de este congreso fue organizado por una empresa productora de bebidas, conocida a escala mundial por sus productos azucarados y clasificada como "patrocinador diamante" del acontecimiento. Mientras se debatia sobre la adopcion de modos de vida saludables en el contexto actual de incremento de los casos de obesidad, el ambito de promocion de la salud se redujo a suministrar informacion que incitara a elecciones individuales racionales, sin que se tuvieran en cuenta los factores politicos, economicos, culturales, mercadotecnicos y sociales que el proceso mundial de transicion nutricional involucra. Los autores concluyen que los conflictos de intereses existen en la participacion de las industrias de la alimentacion y las bebidas en acontecimientos cientificos sobre temas de salud. La estrategia de las industrias intenta dar legitimidad a la produccion y comercializacion de sus productos mediante una asociacion con practicas de salud adecuadas. Los profesionales de la salud y las instancias normativas deben reflexionar sobre tales asociaciones, ya que su principal finalidad no es la promocion de la salud publica sino la generacion de beneficios. Palabras clave: conflicto de intereses; industria de alimentos; industria de bebidas gasificadas; Brasil.
The Positive Ion Accelerator for low-Velocity Ions (PIAVE 1, see Fig. 1), based on superconducting RFQs (SRFQs), has been completed in Fall 2004 with the first acceleration of beams from the ECR ion ...source. Superconducting RFQs were used, for the first time, for beam acceleration on a user-oriented accelerator complex. A general status of the injector performances is here given: it includes, besides the SRFQs, eight superconducting (SC) Quarter Wave Resonators (QWRs) and three bunchers; the beam is received from an ECR source on a HV platform and is delivered, through the SC accelerator ALPI, to nuclear physics experimental apparatuses. The paper is specially focused on the technological challenges related to the operation of the SC cavities, the cryogenics, control, diagnostics and vacuum systems.
Status Of The ALPI Control System Bassato, G.; Battistella, A.; Bellato, M. ...
Seventh Conference Real Time '91 on Computer Applications in Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics Conference Record,
1991
Conference Proceeding
The Euroball experiment is an European project aiming to build a very sensitive 4/spl pi/ gamma spectrometer based on HpGe crystals. The spectrometer is very efficient and the foreseen trigger rate ...ranges from 40 KHz to 100 KHz with a total bandwidth of 30 MByte/s. The paper presents the data acquisition system of the experiment focusing the discussion on the selected event builder architecture: a very fast switching network based on the Fibre Channel Standard (FCS). The behaviour of the system and in particular of the FCS switch has been validated by means a simulated model describing the main features of the architecture. Test benches performed with the FCS switches of two different vendors and several FCS nodes (workstations, VME adapters, etc.) are presented. Point to point performances, round trip time, switch latency and switch latency against switch loading are the main parameters measured.
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